"Thomas is one of those outstanding Southern writers – seemingly soft, languid, maybe even lazy, when actually what he is, is cotton wrapped about a razor. Half the time you don't even know he's gotten you until it's too late." – Charles L. Grant

A former newspaper reporter and TV news producer, Thomas is an award winning writer, essayist and playwright. He writes suspense that delves into the darker side of our nature while examining the more noble aspects of who we are.

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Unthinkable Choice is available now (ghosted)

My short story, "Mother and Child Reunion," has been picked up for a future broadcast of Tales to Terrify.

My short story, "The Heart is a Determined Hunter," was featured in The Horror Zine.

You can now hear my story, "The Heart is a Determined Hunter," free on Tales to Terrify. Click the image below to listen.

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SOMETHING STIRS

For more information about my supernatural suspense novel, Something Stirs, click on the cover to go to the Something Stirs site.

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OK friends, let’s wander through the literary supermarket one last time and pick out a few tidbits to keep us motivated (or make us want to trade in the keyboard for a collection of Smurf jelly glasses).

When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor’s desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing — and it’s not going to be accepted unless it’s as good as theirs. (And it’ll probably have to be better.)
–Daniel Quinn.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
—E. L. Doctorow.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
—Somerset Maugham.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
—Barbara Kingsolver.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
—V. S. Pritchett.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
–Christopher Hampton.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
—E. B. White.

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
—Neil Gaiman.

And remember:Wednesday is Captain Bubba day.Who is the Captain? What drives him? What is his connection with Big Louie? What will he do with that leftover burrito from Casa de Gas? Tune in Wednesday for the answer to these or some other questions!